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See the shape
of your life.

Not a social network. A private vault for your life — your timeline, your relationships, your context. The things that help you remember who you are and where you've been.

The context you keep.

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Is age just a number?
Hover over any age to see a random story about someone that age — different every time
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Rhythms — Compare life's ups and downs for famous people with your own (intense) life. Here you can see some of the life attributes we explore for them... and for you.

Wideview Chronicle — a vertical timeline showing jobs, projects, people and life events across decades

Chronicle — a vertical timeline that zooms from a year to 60 years. Unique columns for health, residences, jobs, and more — linked directly to your resume.

It only takes a little bit of context to bring back a host of associations. "Who was I dating when I had that job?" or "What was our address when I was in school?" — these aren't trivia. They're the threads that hold a life together.

— from the founder's notebook

Wideview Network — a dark constellation graph showing your people and how they connect across your life

Network — distance from you reflects closeness of relationship. Line thickness is density of interactions, brightness is recency. Connected to your daily action items.

Five lenses on your life

One life, many views

Five ways to see your own data. Each one a different lens on the same life.

We think of LinkedIn as the perfect résumé because it's social and easy to share. And it is an excellent tool for that. Being connected is great — but you also need real context. How did I meet that person? What was their partner's name? Who's drifting and who do I need to get back to?

— from the founder's notebook

Fully private

Your data belongs to you.
Always.

No ads. No data brokering. No public profiles. It's just not that kind of tool. Your Chronicle, contacts, and notes are invisible to everyone — locked at the database level, not just behind a settings toggle. This is a tool for your life. It works for you, not around you.

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"I'm a quiet expert in these matters. I'm old. I'm connected. I am a lifelong documenter, collector, and organizer. I've been doing this for fifty years. Now I've built the tools so you can do it too."

Wideview is being built right now. It's personal. It's private. It's for a lifetime.

Wideview Journal — a lifetime journal showing entries by year with context about where you were living and what was happening

Journal — a quick sketchbook for notes on each year of your life. As little or as much as you'd like, though a couple of random memories per year goes a long way. The years connect to Chronicle, and entries in Chronicle fill in blocks here.

This is a different kind of tool.

For people who want to remember, connect, and pass something forward.

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Free for awhile, then $1.99/month. That's all. No ads · no data selling · ever.